Luo et al. demonstrate that ectopic expression of silky3, a novel transcriptional regulator, causes pleiotropic developmental defects in maize inflorescences.. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.20.00043 By Haishan Luo, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China Background: Inflorescence…

Susanne Matschi, first author of Structure-function analysis of the maize bulliform cell cuticle and its potential role in dehydration and leaf rolling Current Position: Postdoc at the Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry in Halle/Germany Education: PhD in Biology at Freie Universität Berlin/Germany,…

Plant Direct has published its first Registered Report What is a registered report? Registered Reports are a type of article where a study proposal is peer-reviewed before the research is undertaken. Registered Reports bring many positive outcomes. By providing external validation of the study…

Name Marc Somssich Affiliation University of Melbourne ORCiD 0000-0001-5092-6168 [email protected] Lignification of cell walls is a pivotal process in plant life. Lignin is a biopolymer that provides additional stability to secondary cell walls (SCWs), enables vascular cells to…

Last week, PSRW presented two review papers regarding host plant interactions with microbial populations, particularly for plant nutrient intake. Watt-Williams et al. utilize such knowledge for their paper, performing an RNA-seq dataset to identify a novel zinc transporter in Medicago truncatula. Zinc…

Post harvest water loss is one of the major challenges in handling fresh agricultural products, yet its cause and mechanism are not well understood. In terrestrial plants, stomata are the primary regulators of water flux; but when the stomata are closed or in astomatous organs such as tomato fruits,…

Photosystem I (PSI) is a membrane-bound protein complex that plays a central role in the conversion of solar energy to chemical energy to drive assimilate production.  Photosystem I is an enzyme complex that transfers electrons from plastocyanin (Pc) to ferredoxin (Fd). Here Caspy et al. have characterized…

The onset of reproductive development is tightly regulated in response to environmental cues as early and delayed flowering greatly affects seed production. In Arabidopsis, the timing of flower formation is controlled by members of the Phosphatidyl Ethanolamine-Binding Protein (PEBP) family: TERMINAL…